Improved condenser for spirits, steam, and other vapors



and county of St. Louis, and State of Missouri, have and the boiler can always be supplied with good magures representing my vapor and gas-condenser, which i 5mm @nicht itin.

ALONZO W. CRAM,'OF s'T. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

Lette/rs Patent No. 85,910,

lated January 19,' 1869.

ILIPRQVED GONDENSER FOR SPIRITS, STEAM, .AND OTHER VPORS.

The Schedule'referxed to in these Letters Patent and-making PaY of the am To all 'whom it #nay concern Be it known that I, ALONZO W. CRAM, of the cit-y invented anew and useful Improvementin Vapor and Gas-Condenser.

By the use of my condenser, steam-engines can be used to a greater advantage on the plains, and all through the country, where water is scarce, o1-,bad for steam-purposes; and for distilling-purposes it is invaluable, as it can be run with small power. By this process the steam is condensed, and the same condensedmatter is pumped back into the boiler, and, in this way,.saves all the water-or other material used,

teral to generate steam.

I do hereby declare Athat the following isa'full and exact description of the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings, and letters marked thereon, the

consists of hollow aims, marked F,.and being in a framework, so that it may be made to revolve.

O O O are fans, so constructed as to suck in the air as the machine revolves. These are made'fast along the edges of the respective arms F on one side, with the other side flaring out, so as to catch the air as it revolves. They are also fastened at the top to the band B.

A is a band-wheel, made fast to the pipe supplying.

Athe vapor tobe condensed, which also acts as its journal,^and which passes into the four arms F.

These open into a receiver, E, which is cup-shape, and provided with a pipe, H. As the receiver E revolves, the pipe H is so constructed with elbows, makingA the opening of said pipe to face and receive the condensed matter as itrevolves with the receiver E.

Now the whole machine is set in motion 1by the band passing around the wheel A, or`in any other way, and the vapor or gas is let into the top of the journal, and passes down to the arms F, where it comes in contact with the cool surfaces made so by the revolving of the machine, producing a cold current, and, after being condensed, passes out into the receiver E,"whence it passes into pipe H, which is stationary, and forms a journal for E, andV is conducted out" ofthe machine to any desired place.

Now, what I claim, and for which I ask Letters Patent of the United States to be granted me, is-

The combination of the wheel A, the fans O C C, and the receiver E, the arms' F, the. pipe H, and the way Aof cooling the vapor, as above. described, and for condensing vapors and gases, and for heating-purposes.

, A. W. CRAM.

Witnesses: 

